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Be excited!

The tens of thousands of people working in entertainment building other people's visions can now be their own writers, actors, and directors. And they'll find their own fans.

Studios will go away. Disney will no longer control Star Wars, because your kids will make it instead. In fact, the very notion of IP is about to drive to zero.

And OpenAI won't own this. They won't even let you do "off book" things, and that's a no-go for art. Open source is going to own this space.

There are other companies with results just as mature. They just didn't time a press release to go head to head with Gemini.

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Sorry, but this is a 5th-grade take everyone on tech-heavy forums loves.

Only some people can make Star Wars (the pinnacle of independent filmmaking if you read Lucas's biography). It has nothing to do with the tools.

IP in the arts is how artists get paid.

I can assure you that no one in the creative industry feels liberated by these tools. Do you realise that just because you are good at lighting, you don't want to be an actor and make a movie? No, you like to be good at lightning, work with others who are good at what you do, and create a great work of art together.

AI imagery only knows what exists. It's tough to make it do innovative technical effects and great new lightning. "oh my god, stock video sites are dead" Yes, exactly; stock, by definition, is commoditised.

What I see is the tens of thousands of people in troll factories producing content for 3/4 of the world population ready to believe whatever they see in the TV.

Edit: Putin on AI, 2017 https://youtu.be/aJELcvjREgk?t=29

"Whoever takes the lead in this area will be the ruler of the world."

"тот кто станет лидером в этой сфере будет властелином мира"

I think a more likely scenario is that people will be so used to it that a lot of people are going to have trouble believing that real things are real. Conspiracy theorists already suffer from this and it's going to get so much worse.

I think in the initial years there'll be some major incidents where a fake thing gets major attention for a few days until it's debunked, but the much larger issue will be the inverse.

> Be excited! The tens of thousands of people working in entertainment building other people's visions can now be their own writers, actors, and directors. And they'll find their own fans.

It's terrible news for the people being replaced. Their training and decades of experience is their competitive advantage and livelihood. When that experience becomes irrelevant because anyone can create similar quality work at the push of a button, they're suddenly left with nothing of value in a world flooded with competition.

Fully agree. I got a bit depressed Nov 22 when chatgpt and midjourney dropped… and then realized midjourney would let me create images I’ve had in my head for years but could never get out. (At least, MJ gave a reasonable approximation)

What you describe sounds like a dystopia to me

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